The Days of Abandonment
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Translation of : I giorni dell'abbandono.
Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician downstairs; she sees the poverella's ghost. After months of self-pity, anger, doubt, fury, desperation and near madness, her acknowledgments of weaknesses in the marriage feel as earned as they are unsurprising.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Europa Editions, 2005, c2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: 188 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1933372001
9781609452766
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Goldstein, Ann.
SUBJECTS
Low-income mothers -- Fiction.
Loneliness -- Fiction.
Divorce -- Fiction.